Faith In Night By Elie Wiesel

In the book “Night” faith plays the biggest role throughout the entire writing, you could maybe even consider them to be both the antagonist and protagonist. Elie had his fair share of struggles with his faith while he was in the concentration camps. His faith would constantly go from an all time high just for the fact that it was something to believe in, something to get him moving and breathing for another day. Then it would to an all time low just for the fact that his god would allow him and his followers to go through this. But the real question is, was his faith what kept him alive?
At the start of this horrible trip to the concentration camps, he really does not know what to think or expect. There was a “crazy” woman in the train car

yelling “They are going to burn us” But no one paid actual attention to her. Maybe if they did more people would be alive. At that point he really had no horrible reason to test his faith. Until he arrived… Elie was treated as if he was garbage and worth nothing in this world. But at this point he still believing that god would be on his side and help him and his family get through this.
After weeks of holding on to nothing but his loving father and god's hand. Belief just wasn't enough anymore. His father was slowly dying, and with that so was is believe in his god. Wiesel could not get over the fact that god would let his dedicated followers go through such pain for believing in him. The only thing they could think of was that It was to test how faithful they all are. That’s how Elie thought of it. Until he completely lost all hope. And once he did lose that little bit of hope. He fell into a horrible depression and had no self worth.
After losing the little bit of faith that he had, he ended up not getting it back until he was an adult and going through life. He had even switched his religion later on in his life and became a buddhist until he realized it wasn’t what he was really looking for. After reading and studying the religion of judaism over again for months he finally got the strong faith he had lost decades ago. I think that the whole reason he lost his faith in the first place was for the fact that he was young and his mind could be easily shaped.
So In the end was his faith in the beginning or loss of faith of faith at the end what kept him alive? I feel like the reason he survived was because who much he believed in the beginning. Which was the hardest part. One wrong choice and you will wind up dead, I feel like if he didn't keep a positive mental attitude at the start, we would not have been able to write this book.